Sisters in STEM
A conversation with Dr Abigail and Donna Otchere exploring role models, representation, opportunity and the experiences of Black women in STEM.
Media & Public Engagement
Media, Conversations & Public Engagement
Joe Quarcoo’s work moves across research, programme design, community development, careers, wellbeing, media, music and public ideas. This page brings together selected interviews, podcasts, public conversations, creative research outputs and speaking engagements.
For interview requests, speaking invitations, programme partnerships and media collaborations, use the enquiry pathway below.
A · Featured conversations
Featured conversations
Selected conversations from A Day in a Life Podcast exploring representation and careers, relationships in the digital age, and loneliness and social connection in later life.
Breaking Isolation — Helen discussing her mission to combat loneliness among people over 50.
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Loneliness in the Over-50s
Breaking Isolation: Helen’s Mission to Combat Loneliness in the Over-50s
A conversation examining loneliness, social isolation and Helen’s work to strengthen connection and community among people over 50.
Watch on YouTube
Dating in the Digital Age: How to Find (and Fund) Your Perfect Match
A conversation exploring contemporary relationships, digital dating and some of the emotional and practical realities involved in finding and sustaining a meaningful partnership.
B · Podcasts and programmes
Podcasts and programmes
Joe contributes as host, partner, interviewer, producer and creative practitioner across programmes developed with collaborators. He does not independently create or host every programme.
Jade Nanton on Faith, Fostering & Finding Your Voice — A Day in a Life Podcast
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A Day in a Life Podcast
Jade Nanton on Faith, Fostering & Finding Your Voice [The 3 Fs]
A wide-ranging conversation with Jade Nanton exploring faith, fostering, personal experience and finding the confidence to use one’s voice.
The podcast continues with further episodes planned.
Watch on YouTubeApple Podcasts
Her Teacher Said Only 2% Would Succeed — Kate Gilbert’s Career Playbook
In this conversation, Kate Gilbert reflects on rejection, confidence, work experience, entrepreneurship and the practical decisions that shape a career. The episode forms part of the relaunched Confident Careers Show, developed and hosted by partners Femi Yusoof and Joe Quarcoo.
A Day in a Life Podcast
Explore the programme on Spotify
The links below open the A Day in a Life Podcast on Spotify. Individual episode destinations are not verified against specific interviews and should not be assumed to be a particular episode.
Other supporting appearances
- YouTube
Sales Rep Turned Director to Founder — Rev Joseph Quarcoo in Conversation with Taffy Mazhara
- Apple Podcasts
Shooting the Breeze with Virrisimus Girl and Joe Quarcoo
- Apple Podcasts
Episode 1 — voice1Afrika with Joseph Nii Noi Quarcoo
A 2020 conversation exploring the vision behind Voice1Africa, challenges facing the continent and possibilities for collective action.
C · Voice1Africa
Voice1Africa: conversations across the continent
Voice1Africa creates space for Africans and friends of Africa to examine public issues, share experience and contribute ideas across borders and disciplines. Joe serves as Chair of Voice1Africa and works with collaborators to develop and facilitate its conversations.
The Anti-Corruption Syndicate — Corruption in Focus: Is It Survival Instincts? — a Voice1Africa conversation
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The Anti-Corruption Syndicate: Is Your President the No. 1 Patriot of the Land? — Corruption in Focus: Is It Survival Instincts?
A collaborative international conversation on corruption, public leadership, patriotism and institutional responsibility.
Watch on YouTube
Voice1Africa First Anniversary Celebration — 3 December 2021
A record of early development, community and collaborative engagement.
Explore the wider Voice1Africa platform — its conversations, contributors and Pan-African public-learning work.
Explore Voice1AfricaD · Creative research and public engagement
Research, translated creatively
Joe’s media practice is not limited to interviews. Through music, documentary storytelling and collaborative public engagement, he explores how research and complex public questions can become more accessible, memorable and open to wider participation.
Southern Cities — a collaborative musical reflection from Musical Urbanism
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Musical Urbanism
Southern Cities
Musical Urbanism is an applied creative-research and knowledge-mobilisation practice that translates urban research and lived experience into original music, accessible media and facilitated public dialogue.
Southern Cities. Original artwork created and designed by Mildred Nakkungu. Written and composed by Joe Quarcoo with contributing Southern Cities cohort members and creative participants.
The Climate Anthem — We Are the World
Created during Joe’s time with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre as part of a creative contribution towards COP26, submitted through the Climate Centre. It was not aired; no official adoption, selection, performance or broadcast is claimed.
Led by Joe Quarcoo in collaboration with Petro Mbwanya and the Voice1Africa community.
ECHO OUR AFRICAN DREAMS — Virtual Book Launch
The launch of a published collaborative anthology bringing Joe together with contributing authors. Joe is not the sole author.
Central Cardiff — an UrbanEverydayUK journey
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UrbanEverydayUK
Everyday journeys across the United Kingdom
UrbanEverydayUK uses everyday journeys, observation and conversation to explore place, movement, culture and daily life across the United Kingdom.
Explore UrbanEverydayUKE · Press, interviews and coverage
Press, interviews and coverage
The items below distinguish independent and institutional coverage from Joe’s own media work.
Institutional feature
Musical Urbanism at the 2021 Urban Festival
In October 2021, Musical Urbanism: A Lyrical Experiment featured in the South African Cities Network’s Urban Festival programme. Joe Quarcoo and Jinty Jackson co-hosted an experimental session connected with Voice1Africa, the South African Cities Network/Urban Festival and the African Centre for Cities context, using Southern Cities to open conversation about people’s encounters with cities and the possibilities of more just and inclusive African cities.
Explore Musical UrbanismSelected Nkosuo Initiative coverage
Independent reporting
Nkosuo Initiative Nominated for Recognition
ModernGhana · 26 July 2019
Fifty LEKMA Public Schools to Benefit from Menstrual Health Campaign
Ghana News Agency · June 2021
We Can Do the Impossible, Only When We Commit Ourselves to It
ModernGhana · 9 August 2019
F · Speaking
Speaking, facilitation and public conversation
Joe contributes to conferences, panels, workshops, podcasts, community conversations and institutional programmes. His approach combines lived experience, applied research, accessible communication and an ability to connect ideas across disciplines.
Engagements can be developed for universities, charities, public institutions, community organisations, professional networks, businesses and faith-based settings.
G · Media kit
Media resources
Download approved information and photographs for interviews, event listings, programme materials, partnership communications and editorial coverage. For additional formats or a tailored biography, please use the media enquiry pathway.
Short biography
Joe Quarcoo is a researcher, programme designer, author and creative practitioner whose work helps people and communities turn ideas, challenges and aspirations into practical pathways. Drawing on experience spanning research, inclusive development, frontline social care, education, media, music and community leadership, he creates programmes, platforms and public conversations that make knowledge more accessible and useful.
Medium biography
Joe Quarcoo is a researcher, programme designer, author and creative practitioner committed to helping people and communities translate purpose, knowledge and possibility into practical action.
His multidisciplinary experience spans applied research, inclusive urban development, monitoring and evaluation, education, frontline social care, community leadership, media production and creative advocacy. He is the creator of ECHO OUR DREAM™, a preventative, holistic life-and-career development programme, and his wider work includes Voice1Africa, the Nkosuo Initiative Foundation, Musical Urbanism, UrbanEveryDayUK and The Confident Careers Show.
Joe’s work frequently connects fields that are too often separated. He brings research into public conversation, uses music and media to make complex ideas more accessible, and develops programmes that support personal, professional and community development. His underlying concern is how people—particularly those whose experiences are easily overlooked—can participate meaningfully, exercise agency and contribute to shaping their own futures and communities.
Formal and public-name information
- Formal name
- Rev. Joseph Dennis Nii Noi Quarcoo
- Public and professional name
- Joe Quarcoo
- Music previously released as
- De Joe Quarcoo
- Current public music identity
- Joe Quarcoo
Joe Quarcoo is the principal public-facing name used across research, programmes, media and music.
Topics and areas of work
Possible subjects for interviews, podcasts, panels, talks, workshops and collaborations. Not every topic suits every engagement; suitability depends on context, audience and brief.
- Purpose, life design and long-term personal development
- Careers, employability and non-linear professional journeys
- Inclusive development, urban informality and the right to the city
- Community leadership, participation and social innovation
- Research translation and knowledge mobilisation
- Creativity, music and accessible public engagement
- African identity, dignity, voice and representation
- Youth development, mentoring and intergenerational opportunity
- Wellbeing-aware and preventative approaches to development
- Frontline social care, human dignity and lived experience
- Programme design, partnerships, monitoring and evaluation
- Faith, purpose and responsible leadership, where appropriate
Approved headshots and speaker photograph
Preferred press imagery for editorial use. Please credit Joe Quarcoo. High-resolution originals are available via the download links.
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Preferred press headshot
Principal portrait for interviews, speaker listings, programme materials and editorial coverage. Natural proportions preserved for professional use.
Download high-resolution headshot.JPG)
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Speaker photograph
Conference platform image retaining stage and institutional context for speaking and public-engagement coverage.
Download speaker photographApproved logo
Joe Quarcoo’s approved personal brand logo for editorial, event, press and partnership use. Please preserve its proportions, colours and surrounding clear space.
Primary logo
Transparent background version for placement on light editorial surfaces. Preserve the complete horizontal logo, JQ monogram, deep green and muted gold pathway and the JOE QUARCOO wordmark.
Open transparent logo
For dark backgrounds
The reversed Joe Quarcoo wordmark in warm cream and muted gold, designed for dark backgrounds. Preferred for dark website sections, presentation slides, video title cards, event graphics and dark promotional or media materials.
Download PNG
These logo assets are provided for legitimate editorial, event and partnership use relating to Joe Quarcoo. Their use must not imply an endorsement, partnership or representation that has not been agreed.
Website and social
- Website
- https://joequarcoo.com
- Principal public handle
- @TheJoeQuarcoo
Programme platforms such as Voice1Africa, UrbanEverydayUK and The Confident Careers Show, and Joe’s music channels, are listed where relevant across the site.
H · Booking
Invite Joe to contribute
For interviews, podcasts, speaking engagements, panels, workshops, programme partnerships, research collaborations and creative projects, send an enquiry with a brief description of the opportunity.